Materazzi: A True Underdog Story

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

The Athletic

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Some know him as the Matrix, some (in France) know him as the most hated man in football. Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gab Marcotti review the life and times of Marco Materazzi. Derided by many as a red card or a penalty waiting to happen, Materazzi ended his career as a World Cup and treble winner. We all know what happened with Zidane, but in this Golazzo, with the help of former Everton team-mate Don Hutchison, we examine the man behind the Materazzi myth. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Materazzi – an unlikely hero? (01m 00s) • PART 2a: Materazzi’s beginnings at Lazio and Perugia (03m 30s) • PART 2b: Materazzi moves to Everton, Don Hutchison joins us to explain more (07m 45s) • PART 3a: Materazzi enjoys a record-breaking return to Perugia (13m 30s) • PART 3b: Materazzi misses out on the title with Inter in 2002 (16m 30s) • PART 4: Materazzi’s hard-man reputation (20m 30s) • PART 5a: Materazzi at the 2006 World Cup (29m 00s) • PART 5b: Materazzi versus Zidane (33m 00s) • PART 6: Materazzi’s part in Inter’s Serie A triumphs (41m 00s) GET IN TOUCH: • follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/totallyfootballshow/) • find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/thetotallyfootballshow/) • send us a tweet: @TheTotallyShow (http://www.twitter.com/thetotallyshow) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Golasso!
0:05.0	Red pills all round as we dive into The Matrix.
0:12.0	Who's probably the only Italian to win a treble and the
0:15.8	World Cup? The Matrix. Who's probably the only center half to be top
0:20.4	scorer for a World Cup winning side. The Matrix.
0:24.0	Who's definitely the most hated man in football according to France Football magazine?
0:29.0	The Matrix.
0:30.0	That's right, it's a Marco Matarazzi special on today's Golazzo. Hello Gabrilei Marcotti
0:46.0	Hello James Horncastle
0:49.0	Hello James Richardson and hello you
0:51.0	You listener hey here we go then.
0:53.4	Today's Galanto is all about a player who has had an extraordinary habit of turning up
0:59.0	at some of the biggest moments in Italian football of late,
1:02.4	and who may just be the
1:04.4	unlikeliest hero that Italian football has ever had what do you say to that
1:08.4	James in skilatchi I mean skilatchi also didn't win the World Cup I suppose he didn't win the World Cup I suppose.
1:13.0	He didn't win the trouble and he's not the Matrix.
1:15.0	Look, he put it best.
1:17.0	He said, you go check it out, but I'm pretty sure there's nobody in the history of the game
1:22.0	that want a trouble, won a
1:24.6	World Cup, played X many games to the national team and never represented his
1:30.2	country at youth level.
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